Dreamweaver CS3 template uneditable

Dear Community,
I created a template in Dreamweaver CS3, editing the template worked up until today. The site is www.slothbob.com, which maybe irrelevant, but in the content part of the page (center), when opened template in dreamweaver, it seems to have a lock down, only allowing an "editable region" where that text is. I am trying to get out of this lock down trap, so I can edit other slices in the template. Also, it prompts that my template is nested directly or indirecty, but before when editing was possible, it seemed to just incorporate the changes to every page across the site. Again, my goal is to just editing some of the slices in dreamweaver that would be an axiom across every page on the site, but in lock down (code greyed out and everything). I appreciate everyone's time and input and thank you all greatly.
Slothbob

The link that you posted is bad. Please try again.
The symptoms you describe tell me that your "template" is likely not a template but a child page. We would need to see the code to know for sure, though.

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